But NCRPO Director Guillermo Eleazar assured the public that his men would not arrest Trillanes even with the arrest warrant for libel charges filed by the President’s son, former Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte, after the senator linked him to illegal drug smuggling. One of Trillanes’ lawyers, former University of the Philippines law dean Pacifico Agabin, said the senator enjoyed immunity from arrest while Congress was in session under the 1987 Constitution. But when reminded that Congress was in the middle of session, Agabin said the senator could not be arrested. ADVERTISEMENTTrillanes is expected to post bail on Monday after refusing over the weekend to yield to authorities serving a warrant for his arrest. But he denounced the warrant of arrest as another attempt to silence him as one of President Rodrigo Duterte’s harshest critics.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 09, 2018 21:33 UTC